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We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a Toolmaker / Bench Hand.

A Kings Award organisation, we are proud of our heritage, spanning many years of manufacturing.  This is a super opportunity to be part of a close-knit team, providing support within the Toolroom.

A unique organisation that invests in its own people and products.  Long-term standing staff, with a training budget offered on an annual basis to all.

Commutable from Birmingham, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, West Bromwich, Halesowen, Walsall, Aldridge, Willenhall, Moseley, Castle Bromwich, Aston, Dudley and Cannock

Benefits:

  • Salary: £32,000 - £37,500
  • Paid Overtime
  • Monday to Thursday
  • Hours 3.30pm – 1.30am
  • Flexible options can be considered.
  • Parking
  • Outside the Clean Air Zone
  • Highly prestigious brand, products and customers
  • Pristine and modern working environment
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unlimited Career progression
  • Friendly close-knit team

Toolmaker Responsibilities:

  • Repair and maintain tooling
  • Working on press tools from single blank tools to complex multi-stage progressions all to fine tolerances. 
  • Support Setters
  • Managing the try-out process
  • Problem solving on tooling problems
  • Strip and rebuild tools for maintenance and re-grind
  • Promoting 5S

Toolmaker Requirements:

  • Ideally Apprentice trained.
  • To have previous experience of presstools, such as single blank to progression tooling
  • Ideally, you will have gained your experience within a high volume environment
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • The ability to read engineering drawings
  • Happy to work perm late shift – 3.30pm – 1.30am
  • A friendly, sociable personality would fit in with the rest of the team

If you would like to be part of a growing success story, where there are unrivalled career prospects for you with genuinely exciting products, send your CV NOW!

 

As specialists in the field, the business has over 40 years’ experience and specialises in design and construction. As a business which is committed to investing and developing its people, all employees have the opportunity to grow within the company. If you have a long-term career goal, we can help you get there!

This is a superb opportunity for a Maintenance Electrician to join the Maintenance team on a Morning shift 6am – 2pm. This is hands-on role, working both independently and within the site Maintenance Team. Engineering maintenance and servicing of site.

Benefits for the role of Maintenance Electrician:

  • Salary of £37,000
  • 25 days holiday + 8 Bank holidays
  • Company Pension at 4.25% / 6%
  • Hours are Monday to Friday Mornings 6am to 14.00pm
  • 4x Life Assurance
  • Discretionary Bonus
  • Overtime

Key Duties

As a Maintenance Electrician, your key responsibilities will include:

  • Assisting the Engineering Team and be the first point of contact in relation to plant repairs and maintenance across a multidiscipline site. 
  • You will support the manufacture, modification & repair of production and heavy plant
  • Essentially interested parties will ideally have the ability to work with 12V & 24V electrical systems

Requirements of a Maintenance Electrician

To excel in this role, you must meet the following criteria:

  • Hold a Level 3 installing electrotechnical systems and equipment.
  • The ideal candidate will be meticulous, efficient and have a sound knowledge of the relevant Engineering Discipline.

If you are a skilled and motivated Maintenance Electrician seeking a rewarding career in a technically diverse business, we invite you to apply.

This role is commutable from Derby, Burton upon Trent, Tamworth and Leicester.

 

A leading UK-based metal stamping, laser fabrication, and welding company boasts a skilled workforce of over 100 individuals, operating from a sizable manufacturing facility the West Midlands. With a reputation for delivering high-quality metal pressing, welded assembly, and laser-cutting services, this company offers a comprehensive sheet metal manufacturing solution, from prototype development to final production and surface finishing, all in one location. With a history spanning well over a century in the manufacturing industry, this company provides a dynamic and engaging work environment, blending tradition with innovation to attract potential employees seeking to contribute to its legacy. 

Salary and Benefits:

  • Competitive salary between £35,000 and £45,000
  • Bonus scheme
  • Free on-site parking
  • Pension scheme
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with tenure
  • Comprehensive training
  • Monday to Thursday 08:30 – 16:30 and 08:30 – 13:30 Friday

As a Process Engineer the purpose of the role is: 

  • Deliver NPI projects on-time, to specification and budget.
  • Continuous reporting to client and internally. 
  • Assisting in implementing solutions to technical issues. 
  • Conduct tool design reviews with toolmakers. 
  • Manage budgets and purchase from vendors. 
  • Hand over all documents, tools and SOPs to the appropriate teams. 

Key skills required for the Project Engineer:

  • Degree / HNC or equivalent in an engineering or science discipline (will consider long term experience)
  • Deliver the project to schedule and budget independently. 
  • Experience with press tooling in design or manufacturing environments.
  • Understanding of contracts and commercial awareness.
  • Able to decipher technical drawings efficiently.
  • Use of Microsoft project software.

Skills/Experience for a Project Engineer:

  • Understanding of our manufacturing process – press / stamping, laser cutting, press brake, MIG welding, projection welding, machining and mechanical assembly.
  • Know how to work with automation equipment. 
  • CAD and SolidWords experience preferred.
  • Able to use basic measuring equipment’s (calipers, micrometer, height gauge)
  • Understanding of ISO 9000 and IATF 16949

Commutable from: Dudley – Walsall – Birmingham – Stourbridge – Kidderminster – Kingswinford – Wombourne - Wolverhampton

 

I have a fantastic opportunity for a maintenance engineer to join a well-known company based near Wolverhampton. As an engineer you will support the engineering team leader to carry out effective maintenance across the site.  

My client is looking for a maintenance engineer to join their team on a continental shift pattern. The right person will be a multi-skilled engineer with no preference as training will be provided. As well as a good salary and benefits package my client offers career development opportunities for those who seek it. 

Maintenance Engineer Role Benefits:

  • Salary £51,161 
  • Premium rate overtime. 
  • Pension Scheme. 
  • Generous holiday entitlement. 
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance. 
  • Company activities and events. 
  • Free Parking. 
  • Subsidized Café 
  • Fantastic Facilities. 

Maintenance Engineer Duties include:

  • Continental shift pattern 2 days 2 nights. 
  • Planned and Reactive maintenance. 
  • Ensure smooth running of the plant and machinery. 
  • Manage and supervise sub-contractors on site. 
  • Identify and procure critical plant spares. 
  • Monitor electrical and mechanical systems performance. 

As a Maintenance Engineer Requirements include: 

  • Apprentice trained. 
  • 18th edition (Advantageous). 
  • FMCG experience. 
  • Strong fault-finding capabilities. 
  • Health & Safety / Food Safety.  
  • Be knowledgeable in using quality assurance systems and standards. 
  • PLC knowledge (advantageous) 
  • CMMS Knowledge. 
  • Be able to work as part of a team. 

Please apply find out more about this role. 

This Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Wolverhampton, Dudley, Telford, Walsall, Bilston, Featherstone, Cannock, and surrounding areas.

 

Company

With nearly 50 years of experience behind them, this is a global company that continues to grow, having doubled in size over the last five years. They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry.  The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted. They are big advocates of personal development, growth and progression, with many success stories of this across the company. 

Supplier Quality and Compliance Manager Salary, Hours and Benefits

  • £45,000 - £50,000
  • 37.5 hours per week, with some flexibility and an early Friday finish
  • The chance to join a very successful and growing business
  • Up to 10.5% company pension
  • Company bonus
  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • Cash health plan
  • A modern, forward-thinking place to work

Commutable From: Wolverhampton, Walsall, Telford, Shrewsbury, Birmingham

Supplier Quality and Compliance Manager Candidate Requirements / Key Responsibilities

  • Factory/supplier audit, assessment and approval – ideally lead auditor qualified / experienced
  • Supplier improvement & development
  • Monitor and stay abreast of global regulatory compliance requirements
  • Evaluation of performance against regulatory compliance requirements
  • Defining AQLs and DCLs internally and with suppliers
  • Factory QC training
  • Staff technical training
  • Control of non-conforming products
  • Customer focussed approach
  • Willingness to travel (up to 10% of the role will include travel)
  • Technical / Engineering capability 
  • Developing factory capabilities
  • Verification of product specification 
  • Identification of compliance criteria
  • Inspection standard generation/negotiation
  • People management of small team
  • Experienced in multi-site operations
 

The Role

This is an exciting career opportunity for a professional Mechanical Design Engineer. The role offers high variation in work, the chance to apply technical skills to real life engineering systems and to design products and machines for some of the world’s leading automotive manufacturers. 

Working within a committed and experienced engineering team in a smart, comfortable, and professional environment the suitable person will be given the opportunity to excel in engineering design and develop professionally.

The role of Mechanical Design Engineer is best suited to a professional mechanical engineer with proven experience in 
mechanical designing and manufacturing looking for a diverse, engaging and highly rewarding career.

Salary and Hours

  • £35,000 - £45,000, dependant on experience
  • 40 hours per week, with flexible working arrangements
  • Potential for hybrid working
  • Professional development
  • Family healthcare policy
  • Life insurance

Commutable From: Leicester, Loughborough, Burton upon Trent, Derby, Lichfield, Tamworth

Mechanical Design Engineer Candidate Requirements

  • Ideally, minimum of 5 years experience working in mechanical engineering.
  • 3D design proficiency. Inventor would be ideal, but all 3D experience will be considered. 
  • Knowledge of manufacturing processes and their requirements from a design perspective, along with knowledge of material and parts specifications and the ability to suitably select these for the design requirements.
  • Hands-on manufacturing / assembling experience would advantageous.
  • The following would be preferred but isn’t essential: experience of pneumatic circuit design and functionality, knowledge of machinery directive, LOLER and other legislative requirements, experience in special purpose machinery, assembly fixture and jig design.
  • Experience working within the Automotive industry would again be advantageous.
  • UK driving licence.

Mechanical Design Engineer Key Responsibilities

  • You will be responsible for the full design lifecycle of the products; this includes defining concepts and developing them into fully functioning 3D models.
  • Initial project review and scope of requirements with the project delivery team.
  • Creating fully functioning 3D CAD models of mechanical systems, special purpose machinery, assembly fixtures, production jigs, mechanical handling systems and industrial automated systems using the latest version of Autodesk Inventor Professional.
  • Creating, checking, and approving 2D manufacturing, assembly, testing and installation drawings to BS8888-2017.
  • Running and participating in design reviews in accordance with internal and customers design standards and relevant legislation.
  • Liaising between design and manufacturing to understand manufacturing constrains or requirements that need to be accounted for.
  • Working in an energetic environment you will play a key role in delivering multiple high-tech projects with a strong professional Engineering support network guiding and coaching you to excellence.
  • The business will provide you with the opportunity to invent and develop solutions and machines whilst pushing the boundaries of your current knowledge and skill set